Gobind K. Night Assignments


Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing






Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search

Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/


Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?

List three things the Nazis did to ensure
that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm

He was the head of propaganda

to ensure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or damaging to the Nazi Party.
to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible.
To ensure success,

Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/
Wannsee Conference
What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/

Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?

What was the Final Solution?

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477

The night of broken glass November high-ranking Nazi Party and German government was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews officials 9–10, 1938 the final solution was decided
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?

Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457

CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”



“enemy,” the Nazi ideological concept of race targeted other groups for persecution, imprisonment, and annihilation, including
Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Afro-Germans. The Nazis also identified political dissidents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, there fate is that the would be killed
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059

What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445


There were three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos.


A gettos purpose was almost like a holding facilitiy The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw ghetto Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minsk. Life in the ghettos was pretty much like living in the concentration camps
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The Camps
There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144

What were the conditions?

What different types of extermination were performed?

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145

The extermination camps were designed for efficient mass murder the Nazis opened forced-labor camps where thousands of prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure. In the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting.
The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials
Who liberated the camps?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131

What did Hitler do near the end of the war?

How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143

What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142

Soviet forces 24 defendants were selected to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military l The IMT declared to the world that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts. The trials also rejected claims that heads of state should be exempt from prosecution.
Images of Night

Gas chambers

Gas Chambers
Decrpit and erie
Sreaming,clwing,gasping
Tears of wax, flowed from their eyes
the shadows of all the people aroused me
Extermination
Beside standing people of the dead